1. Steve Niles is credited among other contemporary writers as bringing horror comics back to prominence.
22 Facts About Steve Niles
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Steve Niles worked in several comic book stores and played in the punk bands Gray Matter and Three, both of which released records on Dischord Records label in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Steve Niles had no formal education in writing following high school, explaining that he learned to write through copious reading.
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Steve Niles' start in the comics industry began with the formation of his self publishing company, Arcane Comix.
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Steve Niles published, edited, and adapted several comics and anthologies for Eclipse Comics, working on I Am Legend in 1991.
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Steve Niles then wrote several titles for Fantaco in the early 1990s, including Bad Moon, Fly in My Eye, and a set of lithographs for Clive Barker's Book of Blood.
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Steve Niles worked for a year on Disney's Toy Story Web Adventures, and later worked for Todd McFarlane Productions where he wrote several issues of Spawn, Spawn: The Dark Ages.
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Steve Niles collaborated on Hellspawn with illustrator Ashley Wood after Brian Michael Bendis's departure, and did journalism work for Kiss Magazine, interviewing members of the band Kiss.
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Steve Niles attempted to shop around his screenplay for 30 Days of Night, but was met with rejection in Hollywood.
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When IDW Publishing formed, Steve Niles sent his "reject list" to Ted Adams, who selected 30 Days of Night as a concept he was interested in.
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In 2004 or 2005, Steve Niles formed a joint venture production company, Creep International, with 1990s rocker and film director Rob Zombie.
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In 2006, Steve Niles collaborated with artist Scott Hampton on a Batman miniseries, Gotham County Line, published by DC Comics.
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Steve Niles is created a new DC character with artist Scott Hampton, named Simon Dark.
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In October 2007, Steve recorded an introduction to the Washington, DC's International Horror Film Festival, The Spooky Movie Film Festival, in honor of opening night host, Count Gore De Vol, who was being honored for his 35 years in Washington, DC Posters for 30 Days of Night were given out, including one signed by Niles.
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In 2007 Steve Niles wrote a story for the DC Infinite Halloween Special called "Strange Cargo".
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Steve Niles wrote City Of Others for Dark Horse Comics with artwork done by acclaimed artist Bernie Wrightson.
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In 2008 Steve Niles wrote a twelve part Batman miniseries entitled Batman: Gotham After Midnight with art by Kelley Jones.
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Steve Niles has written a graphic novel for Zune called The Lost Ones with various artists and City of Dust for Radical Comics.
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Steve Niles is part of the Convention Monsterplaza, which is from April 9 to 11,2010 in Marriott Burbank Convention Center.
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Steve Niles appeared on Spike TV series "Deadliest Warrior", in which he represented the vampire team in the "Vampires vs Zombies" episode, as one of the Vampire experts along with Scott Bowen the author of The Vampire Survival Guide.
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In December 2013, IDW announced that Steve Niles would be collaborating with Damien Worm on a 3-issue title Monster and Madman, a tale of Frankenstein's Monster with Jack the Ripper.
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Steve Niles' Remains, a zombie story was purchased by Synthetic Cinema International in 2010.